St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-31
Thomas Asbury Harrison.
Born Dec. 1S, 1911.
Died Oct 0T 1897
FOREIGNERS IN AMERICA.
The Effect of Their Emigrating to
This Country

Rev. Marion D. Shutter spoke in the
morning at the Church of the Redeemer
upon America and the Foreigner
with special reference to the immigra-
ton question that is to come before con-
gress in December.
We do not wish to keep out the foreigner.
The blood Of an ancestry across the sea is in
the veins of ms all But the tides of fmmi-
grafton that have set towards these shores
must awaken serious questions. The new
immigration bill is designed to correct GER
tain evils. 1t codifies existing laws, makes
some wise additions, and provides for the
proper execution of its particulars. By the
terms OF this document, those who have been
convicted of crime are excluded from these
shores all lunatics and idiots, except they
come in the care of blood relations; all who
cannot give proper evidence of their ability
to take care of themselves; those who come
under contract with corporations to perform
certain labor. Persons who have been dis
charged from foreign aims houses and houses
one who, by present laws, is interdicted from
becoming citizen of the United States.
There is clause that is understood to refer
to Mormon converts, which rules out any
person found to declare the intention of
breaking any law of the United States or of
any one OF the United States American con-
suls are to question those persons who pro-
pose to emigrate and furnish certificates to
become law, it would relieve us of many of
the evils now incident to our i'm
migration, while no honest and COM
petent person who seeks to make a new
home for himself in this country would be
debarred. But all who come should come to
be American citizens. Parties and feuds of
the old world should cease when the feet of
the immigrant are planted upon these shores
We do not ask them to forget the glories of
their own national history, the mighty names
that adorn that history, and the friends from
whom they have separated, but we have a
right to expect that strifes and conflicts
which stirred up their worst passions, which
embittered their souls shall not be peruetu-
ated here. The disgraceful war between
Orangemen and Catholics has no business in
America. We do not want mere aggregation,
we want union. We do not want little Ire
lands. little Englands and little Germanys
country and we must become one people
Such phrases as the Irish vOte,' the Ger
man VOTE and the Swedish Vote are be-
coming quite too common in the vocabulary
of politics. EVEN within the great parties
are found smaller parties and cliques upon
the basis of nationality. And candidate
must be put upon the ticket to represent each
OF these nationalities. Worse than the spirit
(which makes this demand is the spirit within
the party that tamely submits to it. What
interest can the scandinavian, or Irish or
German portions of onr population have that
are not equally the interests of the whole
POPuAsttOl. iC Sp1llb lIOM WHICH I'LL luIS
springs should have been left behind. 1t has
no right TO manifest itself under the Ameri-
can flag. Our naturalization laws need re-
vision. The term of five years might be
heightened. Provisions ought also to be
made for guarding against fraudulent natu-
ralization. In the cities, in particular, agents
OF political parties can secure papers
FOR for muliitndes multitude whose residence in
months instead of years. Furthermore,
believe that the gates should open outward
as well as inward. Those who assail our in.
stitutions and engender strife ought to be
dismissed. We do not want them here.
Why such man like Herr Most of New
York. and others like him, are permitted to
stay is one of the marvels that would add an
other puzzle to the things too wonderful for
the son of Jacob. What security is there
against the recurrence of such murderous
riots as those which shook the city of Chi
cago? When men clamor for the settlement
OF the issues between the weather. and
poorer classes by the sword-when their
whole aim is to produce an agitation that
Will end in plunder and bloodshed-the way
ought TO be opened to send them forever
from the shores whose hospitality they have
abused. Socialism and anarchy are foreign
plants and ought to be rooted up before they
grow into Upas trees. No consideration of
religion or patriotism binds us to cherish Ill
our bosom viper that will one day sting us
us 10 death. In the meantime, while legisla-
uon waits for those points it can wisely
cover, let us use the moral forces we have to
raise the character of the community native
as well as foreign, and instil principles of
patriotism.